Creating Animations – Nick Hodge's Blog

Step 1: Create the base composition with elements. The first step is to create the base elements in the composition.
1. Create a new composition. Set the size to 760 pixels wide by 100 pixels high.

2. Open the Color palette (Window>Color). Select the Document background color icon and set the color to R=0, G=153, B=153 (web color #009999)

3. File>Place the Adobe Illustrator file ‘extreme_flow.ai’. The source files for this guide are available here: MacOS: sourcefiles.sit.hqx Windows: sourcefiles.zip

4. Window>Transform. In the palette, change the width and height of the placed element to 1024 x 100 pixels.

5. Timeline>Show Timeline Window. Here you can see that the Adobe Illustrator file has been placed as a single encapsulated postscript file (EPS). As we would like to seperate the elements, select the element in the timeline

6. Object>Convert Layers Into>Objects. Now we have two layers created from the layered Illustrator file on our timeline.

7. Timeline>Edit Name… Rename the layers to a name that will make life easier later on. You all name your layers in Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign … don’t you Layer 2 rename as extremetext Layer 1 rename as waveflow

8. File> Place as Texture. Select the file face.psd. This will tile the Photoshop file as a texture in the black areas of the extremetext layer. The source files for this guide are available here: MacOS: sourcefiles.sit.hqx Windows: sourcefiles.zip

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